Network Drafting: An Introduction

Network Drafting: An Introduction offers the designer/weaver an entrée into an exciting new world–the weaving of curved designs in many structures on the multishaft loom without jacquard devices, draw harnesses, or other loom modifications. Weavers with looms of eight or more shafts, with or without dobbies, will love this book. Includes 26 cut-and-paste templates for constructing your own lift plans. Think curves and break away from the block.

120 pages, black & white, spiral bound.
$30 plus shipping and handling

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The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop®

Co-authored with Bhakti Ziek.

Everything you need to know about designing woven cloth using Photoshop. This book is intended for weavers, surface designers, graphic artists and others who wish to to have their work produced as woven cloth, whether on hand looms or through industrial production. Accompanying CD contains figures and illustrations in color as well as over 1400 downloadable weave structures and more than thirty full color photographs of actual weavings.

© 2006 Alice Schlein & Bhakti Ziek

362 pages, black & white, spiral bound.
$165 plus shipping and handling

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